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River City Brewers Festival

Submitted by Katie Hannings, Intern
Thursday, March 8th, 2012, 1:47pm

The 3rd annual River City Brewers Festival will be Saturday, March 31 in Handy Park on Beale Street.

Beer from the across the country will be available for sampling as well as samples of signature dishes from some of Memphis' finest restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe and Pa Pa Pia's.

International brews will also be available for sampling.

More than 60  brewers are participating in the event with over 100 different flavors of beer. Samples are included in the price of admission for the festival.

The Ronald McDonald House has been selected as the benefactor for this year's festival.

River City Brewer's Festival

 

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What's behind that restaurant's health score

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard
Monday, January 23rd, 2012, 3:59pm

Despite reporting Mid-South restaurants' health inspection scores every Thursday on Andy's Restaurant Scorecard, I continue to meet viewers who don't know restaurants are required to post those scores, whether it's Tennessee, Mississippi or Arkansas.

Establishments must post those scores someplace where customers can see them:  the entrance, cash register, bar, etc.

If they don't, it's a health code violation. 

Mississippi's health department uses a letter-grade system:  A, B, C. No failures. They are white reports with large, green grades. Restaurants typically frame them for public inspection.

The restaurant inspectors of the Arkansas Department of Health don't employ a grading system at all. They just list the violations.

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Eco Expo!

Submitted by Kym Clark on Friday, January 6th, 12:50 pm

The hugely successful Eco Expo is back with even more exhibitors showing us how to treat our earth more gently with green products, materials, services, and organizations.

Exhibitors will be offering ideas and information, and some will be selling their products and services.

The Expo is Sunday February 5th, 2012 from 11am until 3pm at Temple Israel--1376 East Massey Road...Memphis, TN.

For kids and adults of all ages, there’s something for everyone!

Learn, eat, explore, or just visit with some really nice people.

Remember the proverb, “Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children.”

We are working together with our fellow community leaders and congregations of all faiths to help save the planet.

E-mail TIMemphisEcoExpo@msn.com or call Linda Kaplan 482-6473 for more information.

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"Free Food Friday"

Submitted by Tammy Phillips on Friday, November 18th, 2:25 pm
"Free Food Friday"

It's "Free Food Friday" at Action News 5. We teamed up with the Midtown Lennys and Curbside Casseroles in east Memphis to raise money for the Mid-South Food Bank.

What will your office do to raise money for the Mid-South Food Bank?

On "Free Food Friday",  we ask our staff to join us for a FREE lunch in exhange for a donation to the Mid-South Food Bank.  It's the second year for the fundraiser at Action News 5.  Staffers were treated to turkey, ham, dressing, green breans, pyramid potatoes, salad, pecan pie, apple pie and much more from Curbside Casseroles.  Lennys provided turkey, ham, tuna and even chicken salad sandwiches with all the fixin's, chips, cookies and drinks.  The food was delicious!

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Memphis wings judged best in nation

Submitted by Ben Watson, Reporter
Thursday, September 15th, 2011, 3:14pm

D’Bo’s, the longtime Memphis restaurant chain, has some new bragging rights.

The national wing festival held in Buffalo, New York, this month judged the company’s dry rub wings “the best in the nation.”

That’s quite a compliment considering the fact that the Buffalo festival is considered the mecca of chicken wings. This year’s contest drew 71,000 attendees who were served 33 tons of wings. D’Bo’s Wings and More's entry won first place in the creative sweet category for the restaurant's seasoned wings

Most chicken wings are served covered in sauce, a cooking style know as “wet wings.” But instead of “wet,” David and Leticia Boyd, owners of D’Bo’s Inc,  brought some of their wings to the contest with Memphis Dry Rub Seasoning applied to them.

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Paper compiles list of top restaurant chains

Submitted by Jeramia Trotter, WMCTV.com
Friday, September 2nd, 2011, 11:16am
Paper compiles list of top restaurant chains

The folks over at The Memphis Business Journal have taken a look at locally-based restaurant chains and are revealing which they think are the Top 25... Read More

Read all about it at the Memphis Business Journal!
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Restaurant inspection "hot spots"

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard
Monday, June 20th, 2011, 3:52pm
Restaurant inspection "hot spots"

There's a reason why "pink slime in the ice machine" rears its ugly head so often on Memphis-Shelby County restaurant inspection reports.

The ice machine is one of the "hot spots" on a health department environmentalist's checklist, according to Tom Powell, a former Mid-South restaurateur.

"The mold on the door, no one likes to clean it, or many are unsure how to adequately clean it without chemically contaminating the ice,” Powell said.

That's not the first area that should be inspected, though, he said.

According to Powell, right after the front door, a health inspector should walk in the walk-in cooler.

“Boxes of fruit or produce that are left in the walk-in cooler are often forgotten if the stock is not rotated,” he said. “Then you have rotting produce in the cooler.”

Food temperatures are a "hot spot," too, for obvious reasons.

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